Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul - Initiation, Human and Solar - X - Initiation and
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Initiation, Human and Solar - Chapter X - The Universality of
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Initiation and the DevasThe question may
be asked whether the devas undergo initiation, and we might deal briefly with the point
here. [97]
Initiation has to do with the conscious development of the self, and concerns the
wisdom aspect of the One Self. It presupposes the development of the intelligence
principle, and involves the apprehension by the human unit of purpose and of will, and his
intelligent participation therein through love and service. The devas, with the exception
of those greater devas who have in earlier cycles passed through the human kingdom and are
now cooperating in the evolution of man, are not as yet self-conscious. They grow and
develop through feeling and not through the power of conscious thought. Man,
however, grows through expansions of self-conscious realization, self-initiated and
self-imposed. It is the line of aspiration and of conscious endeavor, and is the most
difficult line of development in the solar system, for it follows not along the line of
least resistance, but seeks to initiate and impose a higher rhythm. The devas follow the
line of least resistance, and seek to appropriate and experience in fullest tide of
feeling and sentiency the vibration of things as they are. Therefore the method for
them is an ever-increasing intensity of appreciation for the feeling of the moment, and
not, as in man, an ever-increasing depreciation of things as they are, or of the material
aspect, which leads to an endeavor to reach out and enfold within his consciousness the
subjective reality, or the things of the spirit - this in contradistinction to the
objective unreality, or the things of matter. The devas seek to feel, whilst man seeks to
know. For the former, then, those expansions of consciousness which we call Initiation,
exist not, except in the cases of those advanced beings who, having passed through the
human stage, both feel and know, and who, under the evolutionary law, expand their
knowledge in ever-increasing degree. [98]





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